First Looks category archive
Devolution 0
At the Hartford Courant, Gary Franks makes a strong case that Donald Trump is driving the United States full banana republic.
“Facts Are What People Think” 0
Veteran newspaper editor Martin Baron is not sanguine at the state of dis coarse discourse. Here’s a tiny bit from his article:
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Meta: Sidebar 0
I’ve deactivated the Blue Delaware RSS feed over there ——> on the sidebar, as the site seems to be experiencing issues and the feed is currently not working.
Sporadic Bloggery 0
Places to go.
A Tune for the Times 0
The Marsh Family sings about Donald Trump’s visit to the U. K.
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Off to drink liberally.
Sporadic Bloggery 0
Family matters, and it does.
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Off to drink liberally.
Recommended Reading 0
Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter.
I have had a copy of it on my bookshelf for (mumble) years. If anything, it’s more relevant now than when he wrote it.
Recommended Viewing 0
Gilligan’s Island, Season Three, Episode Four, “The Producer.”
The whole Gilligan’s Island series is a lot of fun, silly for the sake of silly, but that episode is an absolute hoot. Plus, it includes one of my favorite pieces of music, the “Habanera” from Bizet’s Carmen, one of my favorite operas, worked into a pastiche of Hamlet.
I watched it on Tubi, but you can likely find it on other streaming services.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Washington Monthly, Roger Kerson makes a strong case that “Musk” rhymes with “Ford.”
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*Mark Twain.